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    Taking hopper or Joey to summer cottage

    New dish customer here. I have a hopper, a super Joey, and 2 joeys. The hopper and super Joey would be difficult to move. However, the joeys would be easy to move and bring with to a cottage we use in the summer. There is already a dish on the roof of this cottage from an old owner. Can I bring...
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    Help with locals/eastern arc question

    Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, I tried to search but couldn't find the exact answer. Just switched from Directv to Dish. Installer came today while I was at work and talked to my wife. He said that he would hook it up now, but in a year or so we would lose our locals, because we...
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    Question on HR-34 install

    I have Directv coming in 2 days to do a new install (replacing Dish Network). I have 4 TVs in my house, and they are bringing a Hr-34 and 3 HD boxes. Currently I have a Dishnetwork box, and have my living room TV connected via HDMI, and a bedroom TV connected to the same box via components run...
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    AAA and referral bonus?

    Can I get the AAA discount AND a referral discount? I have a AAA membership, and I see how to get that discount. How would I add a referral discount on top of that? Is it possible?
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    Dish to Directv questions

    I am a Dish customer who would like to switch to Directv, and I have a couple questions I was hoping you could help me with. First, I called Directv yesterday, and they quoted me a price of 52.99 per month after the autopay credit and 31/month rebate. When I got my activation email, the bill...
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    Question for long-time DirecTV customers

    I am considering making the jump from Dish Network, which I've had for about 5 years, to Direct TV. Mostly it's because I want the whole-house DVR service, I like Sunday ticket, and I'm annoyed that Dish Network wants me to pay $200 to upgrade to a 922 receiver. I called and found out I could...
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    Why can't I watch live TV while recording?

    I have a dual tuner HD dvr from dish. Sometimes (not all the time), when i am recording a single show, it won't let me watch live TV without stopping my recording. How do i fix this?
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    Where's the edge?

    OK so for the last week or so the sides of my picture have been cut off, and i can't figure out why. ITs like I have zoomed in a little on the picture, but I haven't to my knowledge changed any setings. I have a Dish HD-DVR box and a 50" widescreen plasma tv. I looked in the dish menu, and i am...
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    Dish 722 Randomly recording shows

    I have had my 722 HD DVR box for a few months. A couple days ago, it started recording 5 or 10 shows a day that we didn't ask it to record. I had a DVR box a couple years ago, I think a TIVO, that had a "recommends" feature where it would record things the box thought you would like--is this...
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    722 audio problem

    Please help me with my Dish HD DVR 722. Whenever we record something, the audio is just a bit off from the video, so the actor's mouth doesn't match up with their voice. We pretty much only waqtch HD, so I don't know if it does this in SD. I've never noticed it in live TV. Is there a solution to...
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    Multi-room 622 set-up

    I am about to get a 622 for my house. I would like to have the setup as follows: 1. Family room: Connect 622 to plasma tv using component cables, in the TV1 feed. 2. Master Bedroom: Connect LCD tv directly to same 622 using a long HDMI cable run through the basement under the floor, also into...
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    Receiver question

    I am going to sign up for Dish network service with the HD-DVR receiver. We have an entertainment center that has some open shelves and some shelves behind wood doors. My wife would like to put the electronics behind the wood doors so that its out of the way and looks less cluttered. Would I...
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    New Customer Questions

    Hello all I am building a new house, and would like to sign up for satellite service. I have had Dish in the past, and was thinking of going with them, but saw that Directv will have like 100 HD channels this year, so now I'm having second thoughts. I have a list of questions, and any you can...
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    TV over fireplace

    We would like to hook up a 32" LCD TV over the fireplace in our new construction home. It would be in the master bedroom. I had planned to get a dual-tuner box for the family room, and have the master bedroom be the 2nd TV. The reason I'd like to do this is so I can just have a TV over the...
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    3 questions for new customer

    I am building a house and have three questions about Dish service: 1. At what point in the build do I schedule Dish to come out and put the Dish on? 2. Can I have two 2-room tuners, or would they interfere with eachother? 3. Does Dish have any bundles with DSL and phone?
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    new construction/bundles

    i am building a new house, and i have 2 questions regarding satellite service when do i call to have them install the dish? does dish have any bundles with satellite/phone/internet service? if it does, and the internet is dsl, is that usually available in new construction neighborhoods?
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    locals question

    can you still "move" and get a different set of locals by changing your service address to a fake address in the market you want? i'm moving to zip code 54956 (neenah, wi), and would like to continue to watch chicago channels. i am aware that this is unethical, but i can live with that. i am...
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    2 questions about dish

    i am about to move from chicago to neenah, wi (zip 54956). i would like to use dish network. i have 3 questions: 1. is there a way to get chicago hd network channels? i thought i remembered someone telling me you could have a different address in their computer than where your home is, but...